fullymatted.
Back to search
986Forum

rear metal skidplate? - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners

Add to repair workspace
Open repair workspace
Original source
3 captured repliesDiscussion pagination complete · Source accounts, not a confirmed diagnosis
THIS DISCUSSION / SOURCE-DERIVED OVERVIEW

Discussion summary

YOUR RESEARCHrear metal skidplate? - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners

Leading reported evidence

Run over road kill

Performed · outcome unconfirmed

No successful repair reported for this finding.

0
Reported fixes
0
Unsuccessful attempts
1
Discussions
Read evidence and context

Explicit resolution reports before identified causes, performed actions and suggestions. Within each level, matching component labels precede direct query mentions and inherited thread context; successful versus unsuccessful discussion counts, owner confirmations and independent discussion support determine order. This is not a probability of success.

Discussions that performed work without a confirmed outcome
1

0 original-poster resolution reports. Counts can overlap; they are not unique people or a success rate.

0 discussions have direct query context; 0 report a fix in that context. Other evidence may inherit the discussion’s subject.

Performed · outcome unconfirmed · Original poster

This happens on speed bumps and when I run over road kill.

Original post Read captured discussion
rear metal skidplate? - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners
Read full discussion summary

Leading evidence: 'Run over road kill' (no explicit attributable resolution; this is a reported action or suggestion). Across 1 matching discussions, The most frequently discussed action is 'Run over road kill' (1 discussions). For that action, 0 discussions report a resolution and 0 report an unsuccessful attempt. No action has an explicit, attributable resolution report under the current rules. These are forum reports and suggestions, not a confirmed diagnosis.

Source reports, not a diagnosis or a success probability. Counts refer to discussions and can overlap.

Read captured replies

1 matching discussions · 3 captured posts examined · 0 partial discussions

Frequently discussed actions (1)

These are separate views of the same evidence. Frequency alone does not establish a fix, and these counts must not be added together.

Run over road kill

No successful repair reported for this finding.

0
Reported fixes
0
Unsuccessful attempts
1
Discussions
Read evidence and context
Discussions that performed work without a confirmed outcome
1

0 original-poster resolution reports. Counts can overlap; they are not unique people or a success rate.

0 discussions have direct query context; 0 report a fix in that context. Other evidence may inherit the discussion’s subject.

Performed · outcome unconfirmed · Original poster

This happens on speed bumps and when I run over road kill.

Original post Read captured discussion
rear metal skidplate? - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners
Coverage and how to read this overview

Counts describe captured discussions, not unique people or a diagnosis. Author identities are not reliably stored. Exact duplicate evidence is counted once across matching discussions; one discussion counts at most once per action/state. Multiple repairs reported together remain a combination. Suggestions and failed attempts do not establish a fix. Matches cover whole discussions and can include related faults, model variants and incomplete threads.

3 eligible posts · 0 unverified posts · 1 discussions match the subject in their title or opening post.

  • 986Forum: 1 discussions

0 evidence records excluded for query context · 0 excluded by outcome qualification · 0 adjusted by outcome qualification.

0 acknowledgements have no verified action link; they do not establish a repair result.

Generation: 20261027T003124Z · outcome-qualification-6. Deterministic extraction; no AI model inference. How we use sources

POST 1 / ORIGINAL POSTEROriginal post

Guys, I was wondering if anyone has seen a metal skid plate for the area under the headers and oil pan. Now that I have the HR springs, I find that I bottom out rubbing the headers on the ground. This happens on speed bumps and when I run over road kill. (OK before you make fun of me-- I live in rural Texas, where road kill is common and depressed armadillos make suicide runs for your car.) They make them for the 996 but it does not say it will fit the boxster one way or the other. James

POST 2Original post

You're saying that your headers drop below the body work? Aren't you more apt to destroy your facia first considering how the headers are squireled up inside. I'm surprised your not melting the belly pans if the headers are that low. Clearly i'm missing something here.

POST 3 / ORIGINAL POSTEROriginal post

the headers are not low. The whole car is low. For instance....If I back out my driveway and carelessly back off the pavement. The rear tires will drop off about 1-2 inches in the grass and the cat converters on my MAXSPEED headers will knock the ground. Or if i am going up an incline from a lower pavement to a higher road. The front tires will clear, but then the oil pan and the headers/ cats/ secondary pipes will high center before the rear tires lift it up. With the HR springs and factory M030 setup, I have less than 5 inches of clearence MAX- anywhere under the car. My factory porsche jack or my standard floor jack will not even come close to fitting under the car. James PS, I recently destroyed my plastic front underside skid plate after i hit a rabbit at @ 110. The rabbit was on the side of the road, I saw him, He saw me and his life was obviously in turmoil because when I was about 10 feet away, He ran into the road and looked at me while I hit him on the center right of the bumper.

This is a source reference. Confirm exact model applicability in the original material.